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I'm about to start reading this book and I'm hooked on page 4... 😍

"Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do for yourself." - Joi Ito

This is why we are #worldschooling #unschooling #selfledlearning

I actually don't like the word 'school' so much these days. Our children choose what to learn, when they learn, and it's probably going to involve a device at this point in time. 🤷‍♀️

I surrender as a parent and TRUST that my children are capable of discovering what lights them up and following those clues 💯

I can't say it's easy to do this as a parent. I was deeply conditioned to believe I need to have a qualification to be good at anything. It can be hard to let go. But it is an amazing journey to watch unfold. If you're a parent and deeply know that the traditional education system isn't for you or your child, definitely start prepping yourself and BELIEVE you can provide better learning opportunities than the system provides. Believe it, because it is the truth. 💯

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melissa 2y ago

I was supposed to also add the picture of the book. 🤷‍♀️😅😆

47 2y ago

Powerful af Melissa. Will have to have a read of that

melissa 2y ago

The book is called Indoctrinated by Ron Malhotra. So far really good. 😍

satsminded 2y ago

I read a book called Curious and it argues that education- knowldge acquisition- is essential for curiosity. It basically rejects the child lead learning movement. Just another point to consider.

PABLOF7z 2y ago

I haven’t read that book, but that doesn’t sound at all like a rejection of child-led learning: exposure to a broad range of fields and realities is pivotal to any kind of real education; that’s why world schooling meshes so well with child-led education (aka just “education”): organic exposure to all ways of life and adapting circumstances.

melissa 2y ago

I'll definitely take a read of it. Since I have four children ages 1-16, I found self led learning is fantastic and perfect for my children because they are exposed to such varied ways of life. They are so blessed to have connected with many walks of life and such incredible people that they could never connect with in society standard life. My sister in law cannot believe our son is well ahead of his cousin in reading, mathematics and logic (probably life skills too) as they are the same age and her child has been in the system two years and our son has never been in a classroom. I am pretty anti authoritarian methods and anything systemised due to my older two being terribly let down in their early education, so I probably have immense resistance to anything pushing systemised educational facilities 😆 😅🤷‍♀️

398ja 2y ago

Beautifully said.

If you haven't read it already, I think you'll enjoy this article of Alfie Kohn.

https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/loss/

Also, the quote in your note reminds me of what one of my taichi instructors once said: “I can only teach you that stuff, I can't learn it for you, you got to figure it out yourself” (paraphrased)

melissa 2y ago

Ohh yeah I have some Alfie Kohn on my reading list 😍😍😍

Thanks for the recommendation 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

JoySun 2y ago

I was just telling a friend about your world schooling last night. His objection was that children will not have consistent childhood friends. What are your experiences with this?

melissa 2y ago

This is so interesting, Joy! It seems like that is a major conditioning based fear. No one would want to deprive their children of friends so lets keep them all institutionalised 😆

Friendships on the road are a little harder to maintain, absolutely. However, my daughter made great friends in Vietnam, we came back to live near them and they moved to Australia shortly after we came here 😂 This can happen in suburbia life too 💯

My daughter (14) also made friends in Turkey, who came to see us in Spain and then she travelled solo from Vietnam to Japan to meet up with them (the parents ran a youth tour) 😍

Our younger son met friends in Spain who came to Bulgaria to visit us and then met up again in Phu Quoc and then An Bang. 😊

We also met friends who followed us from Bulgaria to Phu Quoc and An Bang in Vietnam 🙌

Our oldest son (16) made some life long friends in Spain and he will fly solo from Vietnam to Spain for three weeks in July 🤩

There are many opportunities to meet extraordinary families with this lifestyle. It's amazing to be able to have these examples which show how conditioning has created such limiting beliefs for most of society 💯

Erin Two Chicks Homestead 2y ago

I also think people forget that the majority of friends we met when we were younger we aren’t connected to anymore. People get stuck on kids having a best friend and while I did growing up, I haven’t talked to them now in probably 30 years so how was that turned into such a huge deal?

JoySun 2y ago

Same here.

I think this particular friend still has a lot of friends from childhood so...

melissa 2y ago

Oh yes to this 🙌

I changed so much in my life that I don't share much in common with my childhood friends. I let a lot of friends go when I published my book and started making a different life. Plus a lot of people I met at high school were there wrong crowd and a big reason why I'm thrilled my teens don't want to go to school 🤷‍♀️😂😆😊🤩

JoySun 2y ago

I agree with what you said and think it's amazing. But I think what he said still holds true that no "regular" consistent friends (I guess that means daily interactions).

Really depends on one's preference then.

melissa 2y ago

Yeah that would be true. It has ebbs and flows. Sometimes we are around many other travelling families, other times it's just us. Sometimes other families are around but our kids don't feel like mingling and other times there aren't kids around and they miss their friends. I think overall we have a pretty good balance. 🤩